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Amazing Daisy! Nozizwe Herero • Siya Masuku • Leona Ingram

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Amazing Daisy! Written by Nozizwe Herero Illustrated by Siya Masuku Designed by Leona Ingram with the help of the Book Dash participants in Johannesburg on 27 June 2015. ISBN: 978-1-928318-32-3 This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). You are free to share (copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format) and adapt (remix, transform, and build upon the material) this work for any purpose, even commercially. The licensor cannot revoke these freedoms as long as you follow the following license terms: Attribution: You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. No additional restrictions: You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits. Notices: You do not have to comply with the license for elements of the material in the public domain or where your use is permitted by an applicable exception or limitation. No warranties are given. The license may not give you all of the permissions necessary for your intended use. For example, other rights such as publicity, privacy, or moral rights may limit how you use the material.

Amazing Daisy! Nozizwe Herero • Siya Masuku • Leona Ingram Edited by Ester Levinson & Melissa Davidson

Once upon a time on a little farm near a little village

there lived a little chicken called Daisy.

“When I grow up, I want to fly high, high into the sky,” Daisy said.

But all the other chickens laughed at her.

“You are so weird,” they said. “We won’t play with you anymore.”

“Daisy, we can all flap our wings but it’s very difficult for chickens to fly,” Mama told her.



Daisy wouldn’t give up. Every day she practised by herself, flapping her wings. Flap, flap, flap, she would flap her wings but she couldn’t lift off the ground.



While she practised, she imagined herself flying high into the sky and looking at the chickens below. She imagined herself flying past the sparrows and past the swallows. “Wow!” the birds would say. “A chicken that can fly!”

So … Flap, flap, flap, every day Daisy would flap her wings.

She would lift off the ground but fall down again.

“I’m never going to fly!” Daisy cried to Mama. “The others are right.”

“Daisy, you are different from the other chickens. They don’t want to fly but you do! You can do it,” Mama said.



The following day Daisy climbed to the top of the chicken coop and flap, flap, flap, she flapped her wings. She flew into the air and flapped her wings … and flapped her wings … and flapped her wings and …

BAM!

The other chickens laughed out loud. “Ha ha ha! We told you! Chickens can’t fly!”

But the next day Daisy climbed even higher, right up to the top of the rondavel. Flap, flap, flap, Daisy flapped her wings.

She flew into the air and flapped her wings … and flapped her wings … and flapped her wings and …



She kept flying! The wind beneath her wings grew stronger and she flew higher and higher! The sparrows and the swallows said, “Amazing! A flying chicken!”



And the other chickens wanted to be just like her. They said, “Oh Daisy, you’re amazing!”